Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

"My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen he saw a ro... Read more

James and the Giant Peach

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Featuring stop-motion animation and live action, this inventive adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's tale follows the adventures of James (Pa... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

Master of the Flying Guillotine

After becoming the face of the martial-arts sword-fighting movie (wuxia pian) craze with his legendary performance in Chang Cheh’s The One Armed Boxer... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution

Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of th... Read more

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. P... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

The Innocents

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

A seminal gothic chiller, Jack Clayton’s second feature (following his Oscar-nominated debut, ROOM AT THE TOP) draws its plot from Henry James’s 1898... Read more

Red Spirit Lake + We Await

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

RED SPIRIT LAKEAfter a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake,... Read more

The Last First: Winter K2

In The Last First: Winter K2, Amir Bar-Lev tells a complex, harrowing and moving story that unpacks the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its... Read more

Body Snatchers

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Suffused with an overwhelming sense of dread and the director’s signature psychosexual pyrotechnics, Ferrara’s idiosyncratic reworking of Don Siegel’s... Read more

Leif Jonker's Darkness

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Over 30 years after it was first released direct-to-video on VHS, the internationally acclaimed underground vampire shocker DARKNESS is hitting the BI... Read more

Resident Evil (2026)

From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise... Read more

Peeping Tom

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Steeped in voyeurism and anxiety, Peeping Tom is as unsettling today as it was in 1960. Carl Boehm delivers a haunting performance as Mark Lewis, a pa... Read more

Music Box Bingo

Once a month, join us in the Music Box Lounge 7-10 PM for the infamous MUSIC BOX BINGO! Hosted by your good-time gals Gaudy God and Uncle Aunt. This 2... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

Otto; or, Up with Dead People

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions... Read more

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Suburban inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) devises a ray gun with the power to make household objects microscopic. But he leaves it in reach of... Read more

VHS Swap

Back by popular demand! You’re invited to the Music Box Lounge VHS Swap! Come trade or purchase VHS tapes with one of our experienced vendors, hang ou... Read more

The Last Picture Shows

Ten states. 10,825 miles. 123 theaters. Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of... Read more

NAZA

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are... Read more

Possession

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any o... Read more

In the Mouth of Madness

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publi... Read more

Event Horizon

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

The year is 2047, seven years after the mysterious disappearance of experimental starship Event Horizon. After receiving a distress call from the edge... Read more